📈 Unconventional Rust Web Optimization: How WebP Transformed Alisa Sireneva’s Blog

Alisa Sireneva has turned heads with her creative use of WebP to enhance website performance. Faced with GitHub Pages’ lack of Brotli support, she drew inspiration from the demoscene and used WebP images for data transfer.

I love when people experiment with technologies in an unexpected way. Today’s article will be about an experiment made by Alisa Sireneva. On her blog purplesyringa she shared a blog post about her unusual experiment with WebP.

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She noticed her blog posts take unusuall ammount of transfer even if gzip is used. Unfortunately GitHub Pages, where she hosts the blog don’t support Brotli that should be faster.

Brotli has a wide support by browsers:

Source: https://caniuse.com/brotli

But I have to remind here and there on different occasions it’s not enough, and stuff doesn’t end with the browser. My readers understand that. But some people…